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...frustratingly familiar for many Afghans. Last August in Herat province, which borders Farah to the north, Afghan and U.N. officials found evidence that up to 90 civilian had perished in a U.S. operation. The military initially disputed the findings, saying no civilians had died, only Taliban. But after a high-level investigation, widespread protests and heavy pressure from President Karzai, the military revised the civilian death toll to 33. In the aftermath, McKiernan issued a directive that commanders in the field err on the side of caution when fighting near populated areas, opting for disengagement rather than hot pursuit...
...somewhat dismayed, however, that Smith did not discuss the possibility of pay cuts for high-level administrators, even as other universities move in that direction. At Brown University, for instance, President Ruth Simmons is reported to have taken a pay cut of 20 percent whereas at Harvard, salaries of faculty members and high-level officials have merely been frozen. In an economic climate that threatens the livelihood of many staff members, it seems wrong not to at least consider the feasibility of lower pay for senior university officials...
None the less, this Obama appointment, a 6-month old Portuguese Water Dog, has at least escaped the tax troubles that have dogged torpedoed previous high-level appointments. That being said, the latest addition to the Obama team has not escaped controversy--those with nothing better to do critics clamor that the choice of a purebred dog exemplifies the shallowness of Obama's claim to bring "change...
...grace period, China has shored up its ties to repressive states such as Iran by signing a $3 billion natural-gas deal, challenged American ships off the coast of China and cracked down hard in Tibet for the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising. Yet Beijing has largely avoided high-level censure. In Washington, the State Department released a statement on the repression in Tibet in the name of a spokesman, rather than in the name of Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, thereby making the message far less consequential...
...enroll in and you’re willing to challenge yourself, Phi Beta Kappa may naturally follow,” Lo said. She added that the election committee may have been impressed by the multi-faceted academic interests reflected by her course load, which includes economics, biology, and high-level mathematics classes. Jeffrey D. Nanney ’10 said that he credited his achievement in large part to his teachers. “I really attribute a lot of it to having conscientious professors who really went out of their way for me,” he said...